User-Centered Design for First-Year Library Instruction Programs

Tap into the tools, techniques, and resources necessary for enhancing the freshman library experience by utilizing this how-to guide that applies an innovative approach to literacy and library instruction for college freshmen.

• Offers tools, techniques, and resources for creating a successful first-year information literacy and library instruction program

• Defines user-centered design

• Includes actual activities and steps needed to develop a library instruction program

• Covers in-class and one-time instruction as well as more extended learning

• Provides a practical, how-to approach that is useful to four-year, two-year, and community colleges alike